CH 289

Mother – Daughter Showdown 2

When one side can destroy your weapon with a single blow, there’s no way you can fight equally in melee. Thinking so, Diaroze immediately reversed her striker and sped away at full speed. Despite the fact that she doesn’t want to place an extra burden on Kisei’s unconscious body, she needs to get away with all her might.

“KuHaHaHaHa! HaHaHahA! That’s what I wanted to see!”

On the other hand, the Empress who had been on the receiving end of insults and provocation enthusiastically chased after the [Ex-Caliburn] while laughing like a madman. Due to the [La Grum]’s monstrous acceleration, the distance between the two that Diaroze went to great length to widen is steadily getting smaller and smaller.

“HIII…….that’s not even on the level of scary anymore right!”

Even the [Ex-Caliburn] which is equipped with the [Zentis]’s heavy armor won’t be able to endure a direct hit from the Empress’s blade. Rather than a sword, the thing felt more like a reaper scythe. With that image in mind, blood drained from Diaroze’s face.

“Don’t worry, I changed my mind, I won’t kill you here! I won’t be satisfied unless I bring you back alive and have you tortured and put to the guillotine in front of me!”

The Empress swings her sword while shouting so. Even though she avoided the slash, Diaroze was shaken. Knowing the Empress, that was no threat. She’s fully intending to torture her and execute her with a guillotine.

It was quite a shock for Diaroze that her own mother is willing to go so far. Of course, she understands that it is not unwarranted because of her betrayal but there’s still a conflict between her rational and emotional sides. She couldn’t help but wonder why the Empress can’t reel her usual sadism back a little bit here.

“The man in that video…….that must be your lover right? I will catch and do him right in front of you. Look forward to the show!”

“I knew you would say that! You pervert…….!”

However, her own indignation was blown away by the Empress’s following words. Instead, what sprang up inside her was the will to fight to protect her man. Realizing that, Diaroze smiles at herself wondering if this is her womanly instinct.

In any case, right now she needs to defeat this woman somehow. That’s impossible in a straightforward fight. After all, the difference in specs is too much for her skills to overcome. On top of that, Kisei who’s physically weak is still lying unconscious with her in the cockpit so she can’t perform unreasonable maneuvers that would affect his body.

“No easy way out huh……but I have no intention of losing to anyone other than Master…….!”

She strongly gripped the control stick tightly while enduring the onslaught of attacks from the [La Grum]. Her technique is both sharp and fast and as to be expected, she doesn’t even show a small opening like a big swing that can easily be exploited.

When she avoided another horizontal swing, Diaroze fired her wire gun at nearby debris. The moment the anchor was in place, she reeled herself toward it to take a distance away from the [La Grum].

“Seriously, this is annoying……! It would be better if you just give up……you have no advantage over me whatsoever you must have realized that already that you have no chance of winning from the start.”

While shouting whatever she wants, the Empress continued to chase after the [Ex-Caliburn]. In the end, the difference in their speed was apparent and the Empress caught up in an instant. Again, Diaroze used the wire gun to evade the approaching giant sword.

“Take this, Take this!”

[La Grum]’s speed is certainly terrifying but since it’s a large striker, its movement is linear so it can’t accurately follow the tricky movements she performs using the wire gun.

“Tsk!”

Realizing her sword won’t be enough alone, the Empress immediately switched her tactics. She pressed the button on the control stick and fired a large amount of high-mobility missiles from the back-mounted missile container.

“You’re using missiles in a place filled with debris like this!?”

Seeing the Empress launch the missiles, Diaroze quickly turns her strikers and takes cover behind the debris. Nearly half the missiles got caught on the floating wreckage and exploded on the steel plate while smaller debris was blasted away by the explosions and began to spin erratically.

The remaining missiles were then intercepted by the anti-missile laser turrets mounted on the shoulders of [Ex-Caliburn]. With every invisible low-powered laser fired, a small warhead got burned and exploded before impact. In a blink of an eye, the number of missiles was sharply cut down.

“The missiles were just distractions you know!”

However, the Empress already predicted that result. Before Diaroze realized it, she circled around to the opposite side and charged at her with a mega-blaster rifle.

It’s a pincer attack. The missiles were mostly shot down by the laser turrets but as expected not all of them could be cleaned up. And while she’s occupied with that, Diaroze would be too late to react to the Empress’s charge.

“I thought you would do that……!”

However, Diaroze’s face shows no sign of impatience. On the contrary, she pulled out the 8.5Mw blaster rifle from the back with a grin.